Tech N9ne is ecstatic about Kendrick Lamar's upcoming Super Bowl LIX halftime moment ... given the fact that K. Dot and then-future Grammy sensation Jay Rock got their first big break on his 2010 "Independent Grind" tour!!!
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00:00You can't deny the year that Kendrick had, man.
00:06And people still talk about how they used to see him on the side of the stage every
00:08night at my show when we were on tour together.
00:11And he always spoke highly about him learning how to be a performer and this, that, and
00:19the other.
00:20Boy, has he become incredibly unbelievable on stage.
00:30We rehearsed a lot before tours, so every night he would watch that I would do the same
00:34moves on every hit of each song.
00:39I got a move that I do every night, and it's like a routine.
00:45So I think he paid attention to that.
00:48I think he paid attention to me and Chris Calico, the uniform and not just plain clothes,
00:53you know what I'm saying?
00:54Which he can do both, and I can do both as well.
00:56But I think they looked at all that.
01:00They looked at the energy and the fact that I'm saying all the lyrics, you know what I
01:06mean?
01:07And not rapping over my lyrics, you know?
01:09I think they paid attention to all of it.
01:11When I say they, I mean him and J-Rock and Ali.
01:16They were all on the tour together with us.
01:18It was right when Section 80 was popping in L.A., and he gave me that CD on that tour,
01:26and he did Good Kid, Mad City the year after.
01:30Right when Good Kid, Mad City was taking off, you know?
01:35But a lot of people don't know that I think on all sixes and sevens, he was on a song.
01:40The first song we ever did together, we did first was I Love Music with him, myself, and
01:46my relative Marcus Yates, you know?
01:49We did I Love Music, and nobody knew who he was, and he was rapping on my record.
01:53Then the one after that, you know, Here Comes Fragile.
01:57Power 106 in L.A. was the first people to start spinning it.
02:02I'm happy for Kendrick.
02:04All his accomplishments are amazing.